We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. Psalm 44:1
When people hear about what God used to do, one of the things they say is: "Oh, that was a very long while ago." They imagine that times have altered since then....."things were in a diffeent state then from what they are now." Granted; but I want to know what the things have to do with it. I thought it was God that did it. Has God changed? Is he not an immutable God, the same yesterday, today and forever? Does that not furnish an argument to prove that what God has done at one time he can do at another?
Others among you say, "Oh, well I look upon these things as great prodigies - miracles. We are not to expect them every day." That is the very reason why we do not get them. If we had learnt to expect them, we should no doubt obtain them, but we put them up on the shelf, as being out of the common order of our moderate religion, as being mere curiosities of Scripture history. We imagine such things, however true, to be prodigies of providence; we cannot imagine them to be according to the ordinary working of his mighty power. I beseech you my friends, abjure that idea, put it out of your mind. Whatever God has done in the way of converting sinners is to be looked upon as a precedent, for "his arm is not shortened that he cannot save, nor his ear heavy that he cannot hear."
C. H. Spurgeon, from a sermon preached in 1859, The Banner of Truth, May 2014
The Hero of The Story
Charles Wesley wrote a powerful hymn to proclaim the wonder of God made man.
Let earth and Heav'n combine, angels and men agree
To praise in songs divine, Th' incarnate deity
Our God contracted to a span,Our God contracted to a span,
Incomprehensibly made Man.
Do you see the great love of God, that Jesus Christ,God immortal, God eternal, would become a man so that He could be like us, so He could be one of us, so He could save us?
(Tim Challies, Tabletalk, May 2014)
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